[ On Monday, August 7, 2000 at 11:48:08 (-0500), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]
> Subject: exclusive locks (again, I know)
>
> I've been watching the exchanges here about this, and while I don't want
> to start any wars, I'd like to get a clarification about something.
>
> As I understand the CVS manual, the only way to have exclusive locks on
> checkout is to combine cvs checkout with cvs admin (there's a race
> condition there, right?).
I'm not 100% sure that even this "trick" will give you the kind of locks
you will need in order to interact properly with a non-CVS repository.
> From what I've been reading (not necessarily
> just the manual), my impression is that this facility (exclusive
> checkout) may go away in the future. I'd like to know if that's correct.
It would be very good if it went away! ;-)
> We're using Sniff on top of RCS right now, and I'd like to move us to
> CVS in order to facilitate checkin/checkout from lab machines which
> don't have Sniff installed. However, we want an exclusive checkout
> model.
The only correct solutions in your scenario will be to continue to use
this "Sniff" thing and either install it on your lab machines or arrange
for them to access shared storage where stuff can be checked out on
their behalf.
--
Greg A. Woods
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